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Summary

Fantasy Focus Football – Week 10 Recap: BREAKOUT Studs & DISAPPOINTING Duds

Podcast: Fantasy Focus Football (ESPN)

Hosts: Field Yates, Stephania Bell, Daniel Dopp
Date: November 10, 2025
Episode Theme: A detailed Week 10 fantasy football recap, analyzing the standout "studs" and letdown "duds" across the NFL, injury updates, tactical takeaways, plus an MNF preview and lively listener Q&A.

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Episode Overview

Main Purpose:
This episode digs deep into Week 10 fantasy impact, spotlighting breakout stars, disappointments, confusing performances, and injury ramifications. The crew delivers game-by-game insights, tackles strategic fantasy debates, and blends signature banter with actionable advice, making it ideal for managers aiming to cash in or bounce back as playoff races heat up.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The "Winners" of Week 10 (02:08–06:42)

• Devon Achane (Dolphins RB) – Field’s Winner
  • Achane notched his second career 40+ fantasy point game (174 rushing yards, 2 TDs; 40.5 FP).
  • “Double digit fantasy points in every game this season. That's something that neither McCaffrey nor Jonathan Taylor can claim.” – Field Yates, 03:02
• Jonathan Taylor (Colts RB) – Stefania’s Winner
  • 49.6 fantasy points, 3 TDs, including an 83-yard sprint. “A historic outing… tied for 36th most by any running back in NFL history.” – Stefania Bell, 03:34
  • Now the Colts’ all-time touchdown leader; 4 games as RB1 this year.
• Jahmyr Gibbs (Lions RB) – Daniel's Winner
  • Bounced back with 38.2 points on just 50% of snaps, 142 rushing yards, 3 total TDs.
  • “The thing that's so exciting to me...played just half the snaps and had 38.2 fantasy points.” – Daniel Dopp, 05:44
  • Credit to Detroit's new play-calling for reigniting the offense.

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2. The "Losers" and Letdowns (07:30–10:38)

• Bijan Robinson (Falcons RB) – Field’s Loser
  • 10.8 FP, 3 straight games <18 points, no red zone touches, ceding goal-line work to Tyler Allgeier.
  • “When Bijan goes under 11 fantasy points…it’s hard to not consider him a loser of the week.” – Field Yates, 07:50
• Justin Jefferson (Vikings WR) – Stefania’s Loser
  • 7.7 FP on 12 targets (4 catches), lowest of the season, quarterback struggles (JJ McCarthy), just one top-8 finish this year.
  • “First single-digit total fantasy points on the season…receptions vs. targets, you have to look for the disconnect.” – Stefania Bell, 10:20
• Garrett Wilson (Bears WR) – Daniel's Loser
  • Left hurt, but was invisible even before (3 tgts, 0 catches). Bears' QB disaster. “Feast or famine.” – Stefania & Field, 18:09

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3. “What the Heck Happened?” (08:05–22:29)

• Tyler Allgeier (Falcons RB) – Daniel’s What The Heck
  • 2 TDs, 5 red zone touches compared to Bijan’s zero. “Fantasy managers don’t deserve this.” – Daniel Dopp, 08:11
• Davis Mills (Jaguars QB) – Field’s What The Heck
  • Shock QB1 finish (28.7 FP, rare rushing TD). “Did not have Davis Mills finishing as quarterback one for the week.” – Phil Yates, 20:48
• Jacoby Myers (Jags WR) – Stefania’s What The Heck
  • Only 3 targets despite being considered a safe hands guy. “Why are we targeting Parker Washington seven times?” – Stefania Bell, 21:28

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4. Notable Takeaways and Trends (22:29–47:48)

Detroit Lions’ Offensive Resurgence

• Dan Campbell takes over playcalling, immediate spark for Goff (320 yds, 3 TD), Jamo (119 yds, 1 TD), and others. “This was kind of like going back to what it felt like last year.” – Daniel Dopp, 23:35

Jalen Waddle Emerges

• With Tyreek Hill out, Waddle now a top-12 WR: “14.6 fantasy points or more in five out of six games without Tyreek.” – Phil Yates, 26:07

Matthew Stafford – Set-and-Forget QB?

• Second straight week 280+ yds, 4 TDs. “Only QB in NFL history with four touchdowns/no INTs in three straight games.” – Daniel Dopp, 28:24
• “He is now 115, 115 and one as a starting quarterback.” – Phil Yates, 31:20

Bears Backfield – DeAndre Swift’s Show

• Swift dominates snaps and targets (8 to 1), passing game role cements him as preferred Bears RB.
• “You have to be a running back who catches passes—just jumps your value so much.” – Stefania Bell, 33:53

Giants’ QB Jackson Dart’s Health

• Leaves game with concussion, 4th time evaluated this year; concern about Giants risking his health due to their run-heavy, all-in style:
  • “Giants have to realize: Dart’s future is more important than eking out a fifth win.” – Field Yates, 39:15

Rising and Reliable Wide Receivers

• Drake London (Falcons): 24+ FP in 4 of last 5; “has been unbelievable.” (44:20)
• Trey McBride (Cardinals TE): 16.5+ FP in four straight, now in rarefied air among TEs and receivers (45:50)
• Chris Olave (Saints): Five-game streak of WR2 or better fantasy weeks (43:22)

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5. Injury Updates (47:48–50:56)

• Jackson Dart (Giants QB): Concussion protocol; future status uncertain.
• Dalton Kincaid, Devonte Adams, Garrett Wilson: Various injuries—monitor updates.
• A-Ronda Gadson (Rams WR): Knee-to-knee collision, MRI pending.
• Justin Herbert (Chargers QB): Ankle injury, likely on injury report.

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6. Studs and Duds: Key Rapid-Fire Performers (50:56–56:29)

• Studs:

  • Breece Hall (Jets): 21 touches, 80+ yds, key TD.
  • Caleb Williams (Bears QB): Back-to-back elite rushing weeks, 25.1 FP.
  • Mecca Igbuka (Bucs WR): 13 targets, 1 TD—returns to relevance.
  • Juwan Johnson (Saints TE): 4 straight games over 10 FP.

• Duds:

  • Rashad White (Bucs RB): 10 FP, failed to meet RB1 expectations.
  • Josh Allen (Bills): 2 TOs, Buffalo offense lifeless after huge emotional win.
  • Michael Pittman Jr. (Colts): Just 4 FP after 3 straight 20+ FP games.

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7. Rapid-Fire: Listener Q&A (61:33–end)

• Should you trade Derrick Henry, Courtland Sutton, and Jordan Addison for Jalen Warren and Justin Jefferson?
  • “Jalen Warren right now is more cool than Derrick Henry. ... And even though Jefferson’s been bad, still over Cortland Sutton.” – Field Yates, 63:01
• Will A.J. Brown get 7 points tonight?
  • “He can have one touchdown, and then stop scoring.” – Stefania Bell, 62:34

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “I just want to announce this right now. They’re [Colts] on a bye next week. Still starting Jonathan Taylor out of respect.” – Field Yates, 05:06
• “Fantasy managers don’t deserve this” (on Tyler Allgeier poaching TDs) – Daniel Dopp, 08:11
• “It’s what we call feast or famine.” (on Garrett Wilson’s up-and-down year) – Stefania Bell, 18:09
• “Did not have Davis Mills finishing as QB1 for the week.” – Phil Yates, 20:48
• “If you’re going to the fantasy playoffs and you got injuries at quarterback, [Stafford] might be somebody to consider.” – Stefania Bell, 29:16
• “He is now 115, 115 and one as a starting quarterback.” – Phil Yates, 31:20 (on Stafford's career record)
• “You have to be a running back who catches passes—it just jumps your value up so much.” – Stefania Bell, 33:54
• “When you draft a guy in the first five picks, you’re expecting him to be at some point in the top five. So far, Justin Jefferson has zero of those finishes.” – Field Yates, 11:10

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Timestamps for Important Segments

| Segment | Timestamp | |------------------------------------------|------------| | Week 10 "Winner" Performances | 02:08–06:42| | Running Backs: Gibbs, Taylor, Achane | 02:08–06:42| | Bijan/Allgeier Frustration | 07:30–09:00| | Justin Jefferson’s Down Year | 09:29–13:04| | Surprise QB1: Davis Mills | 18:41–20:55| | Detroit Lions Offensive Changes | 22:29–24:22| | Waddle’s Elevated Role | 25:13–27:19| | Stafford’s Hot Streak/Historic Mark | 28:23–31:25| | Bears Backfield Breakdown | 33:07–34:43| | Giants’ Jackson Dart Injury | 36:50–40:49| | Drake London/Trey McBride Breakouts | 44:20–45:50| | Week 10 Fantasy Injuries | 47:48–50:56| | Studs & Duds Roundup | 50:56–56:29| | Listener Mailbag | 61:33–63:46|

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Tone & Style

The hosts maintain their classic ESPN Fantasy Focus balance—analytically sharp, deeply knowledgeable, and playfully relatable. They mix stats with humor, transparency on misses, and deliver clear, actionable advice for fantasy success.

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Summary in a Nutshell

Week 10 delivered seismic RB performances (Taylor, Achane, Gibbs), but also saw frustrating usage (Bijan, Allgeier), WR stud reliability (Waddle, London, McBride), and lingering QB woes (Giants, Bears, Bills). Injuries could shake up the RB and WR landscape in Week 11. As always, don’t overreact to one weird week, keep monitoring snaps and targets, and trust the premium talent—just keep an eye on the ever-shifting injury and usage news.

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For deeper league-specific questions, hit up their next chat or find the hosts on socials!

Transcript

[Stefania Bell]

Fantasy.

[Daniel Dopp]

You're in the whole 6, 010.

[Stefania Bell]

Focus. Fantasy.

[Daniel Dopp]

Fantasy.

[Stefania Bell]

Focus.

[Daniel Dopp]

What's good, friends? Welcome into Fantasy Focus Football, presented by Little Caesars alongside Stefania Bell and Phil Jates. My name is Daniel Dopp. Here to recap everything that is week 10. And what a week week 10 was. My friends. How you guys doing? How are your matchups this week?

[Phil Yates]

You know, I think, and this probably applies to all of us, like, I can never leave a week saying, like, everything went exactly as you wanted.

[Daniel Dopp]

We play in too many leagues. Way too many leagues.

[Phil Yates]

But, you know, more good than bad, which is good this week. And a couple things outstanding tonight with the big game between the Eagles and the Packers. So we'll see.

[Daniel Dopp]

Yes, we will. Stefania, how are you?

[Stefania Bell]

I would say, are you talking about real life football, which might be the reason you're smiling or fantasy football? Because I'd rather talk about fantasy football.

[Daniel Dopp]

All day than real life football. I mean, fair.

[Phil Yates]

I still think your team is extremely gritty.

[Daniel Dopp]

49Ers are.

[Phil Yates]

I am not so proud of them. So proud of them, really.

[Stefania Bell]

Rams are wagon.

[Daniel Dopp]

Rams are playing well.

[Phil Yates]

We will talk a lot about.

[Daniel Dopp]

We will. Yes, we will.

[Phil Yates]

Of minutes. Yeah.

[Daniel Dopp]

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[Stefania Bell]

I have a question before we dive in.

[Daniel Dopp]

Sure.

[Stefania Bell]

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[Daniel Dopp]

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[Stefania Bell]

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[Daniel Dopp]

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[Phil Yates]

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[Stefania Bell]

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[Daniel Dopp]

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[Phil Yates]

We're going to do our best to prevent that from happening. Yeah, that's right.

[Daniel Dopp]

Yeah.

[Stefania Bell]

Yeah.

[Phil Yates]

Do our best.

[Stefania Bell]

Answer that question.

[Phil Yates]

Yeah.

[Stefania Bell]

All right.

[Phil Yates]

Yeah.

[Daniel Dopp]

All right. Now it's time for our Monday morning blitz. Each of us brought a winner, a loser, and a what the heck happened here? Kind of player field. I'm going to start with you. Who was your winner this week, my friend?

[Phil Yates]

My winner is Devon Achan. A little bit of disclosure Here we do sometimes consult on who others had as their winners. So if you're saying to yourself he wasn't even the highest scoring running back on the day, I'm imagining that running back will be discussed in just a few moments. But Devon achan had his second career game with 40 or more fantasy points yesterday. He scored 40 and a half fantasy points. He, he just totally torched that Bill's run defense for 174 yards on the ground plus a pair of touchdowns. I know that Devon HN is a tick below the likes of Jonathan Taylor and Christian McCaffrey for our season long fantasy football MVP. But it should not be overlooked that he has double digit fantasy points in every game this season. Something that neither CMC or Jonathan Taylor can claim for themselves. A very very short list of players have reached 10 points or more in every game this season. So it's not just the floor but yesterday was a reminder of the ceiling. Dolphins got a great win yesterday. Very impressed by their resolve. A team that I think could have rolled over and nobody would have blamed them after recently firing their GM and having some pretty discouraging recent efforts. The Dolphins beat the Bills and Devon Hn probably beat your opponent if you have him in fantasy.

[Stefania Bell]

Yeah, it's hard to I I feel badly for Duan Achan because in most weeks that would make you the number one running back of the week. But of you're deferring to me because Jonathan Taylor, who's been in my winners column multiple times but maybe I peaked too early but I just want to keep pointing it out because when that happens it just shows how consistently awesome you are. So Jonathan Taylor, a historic outing and not using that word in anything but the literal sense. 49.6 fantasy points tied for 36th most by any running back in NFL history. Set a new Colts franchise touchdown record with 66 touchdowns with the Colts. He's like I said, he's been the winner winner column for me three times. He's finished as the number one running back in fantasy three times before today. That's this season. Now it's four. Unless something happens tonight. But I it's going to be hard to top this. Let's be honest. And he was running back two in week five, running back three in week seven. The only dud and I did call him out for it last week was last week when he had single digit fantasy points as you referenced. That was his one week without the double digit fantasy points. But wow. Three touchdowns on the day including this 83 yard scamper and one of the things that you love about the way he plays is his vision and his patience. And so it, they, they, they covered up the middle and it looked like he had nowhere to go. And then out to the left and he's gone. And it's just so fun to watch him run, especially in the context of knowing how much he values the pure running running backs.

[Phil Yates]

He's amazing. He is unbelievable.

[Daniel Dopp]

Six games over, 29 and a half fantasy points so far this year. Five games with three or more total touchdowns.

[Phil Yates]

I just want to announce this right now. They're on a buy next week. Still starting out of respect.

[Daniel Dopp]

That's right, that's right.

[Phil Yates]

Just putting them in there.

[Stefania Bell]

I bet he doesn't get a zero either.

[Daniel Dopp]

You know what, speaking of respect, I don't think he's going to get enough love in the actual MVP conversation. But Jonathan Taylor in the. Correct. But Jonathan Taylor in the fantasy MVP conversation. Absolutely. To me, one of the guys that's.

[Stefania Bell]

At least in that top three values it as much.

[Daniel Dopp]

100%. Yeah.

[Phil Yates]

And he'll probably, if this keeps up, he will win at least the offensive player of the year which has basically become the best non quarterback. Correct.

[Daniel Dopp]

Correct. I'm going to talk about one more running back if you guys don't mind. I'm actually wearing his jersey right now. Jameer Gibbs bounce back game.

[Phil Yates]

No surprise there. Right.

[Daniel Dopp]

Coming off a dud. But this week, 142 rushing yards, three catches, 30 receiving yards plus three touchdowns as well for 38.2 fantasy points. Third straight game with three or more catches he has played about in this one. The thing that this is what's so exciting to me. He played 50% of the snaps in this game and had 38.2 fantasy points.

[Phil Yates]

I think they pulled their starters in the second quarter.

[Daniel Dopp]

They did, they did.

[Phil Yates]

But he played a ton of the snaps when the game was even relatively competitive. Absolutely wildly efficient.

[Daniel Dopp]

It was coming off of a really down week. In fact, the last month has sort of been weird for Jameer Gibbs. His two worst games of the year came in the last month and his two best games of the year came in the last month.

[Stefania Bell]

Dan Campbell, take the play calling.

[Daniel Dopp]

I was going to mention that a little bit later when I talked about the quarterback and some of those guys, but I do think that that absolutely factored into.

[Stefania Bell]

Felt like it contributed.

[Daniel Dopp]

We will, we will talk about that. But Jameer Gibbs, major bounce back. Love to be able to see him not only get in the end zone as much as he did, but be a part of the passing game because that's one of the things that has sort of not happened as much this year as it did last year.

[Phil Yates]

Talked about that last week. 30 receiving yards and a touchdown for Gibbs. The Commanders are a fun defense for us to be targeting the rest of.

[Daniel Dopp]

The yes, they are.

[Phil Yates]

The Commanders play the Dolphins this upcoming Sunday. It's the first final international game. I believe it's in Madrid over in Spain. So that'll be a fun one. For fantasy purposes. My loser of the week is and it's, you know, he wasn't awful yesterday compared to some of the losers that we have discussed where it's like the guy gets you two fantasy points. But when Bijan goes under 11 fantasy points, it's hard to not consider him amongst the losers of the week. 10.8 fantasy points for Bijan and let's just call it what it is. He's in the middle of a three game rut. Kind of a mini rut, right? It's not like he has been completely unplayable. But he has three straight games under a hundred yards. He has three straight games under 18 fantasy points. He has three straight games without a touchdown, either as a rusher or a receiver. He's an amazing player. That much is for sure. This Falcons team does some really maddening things every single week. Bichon's going to be fine. He's still a lineup block. He's in my I, I got ahead of my rankings this week and did a little initial run on the week 11 ranks. He's still a top four running back for me this week. That being said, this column is not about players that we are moving from starter to bench. We are sometimes just talking about players who you have no choice but to play them. And for three straight weeks you've probably felt a little underwhelmed by Bijan.

[Daniel Dopp]

I'm going to, if you guys don't mind, skip to my what the heck. Because it's Tyler Algier. Cause fantasy managers don't deserve this.

[Phil Yates]

Yeah.

[Daniel Dopp]

11 for 57 and two touchdowns. 17.7 fantasy points. Bijan had 10.8 fantasy points. But this is the part that really rubs me the wrong way. Bijan Robinson did not have a single touch inside the opponent's 19 yard line.

[Phil Yates]

Seems bad.

[Daniel Dopp]

So you're talking about there was no opportunities inside the 10, no opportunities at the goal line, no opportunities inside the 15. Barely involved in the red zone offense for the Falcons. It was all Tyler Algier in the red zone.

[Phil Yates]

Do you know offhand how Many Algier got in that same category.

[Daniel Dopp]

Algier had five. Five touches in that category. Bijan had zero touches in that category.

[Phil Yates]

Because if you're going to tell me he had one, it's like, well, maybe they just scored some long touchdowns or they tried to throw it when they got down there. Nope. No.

[Stefania Bell]

It did feel like every time we looked up for, you know, we were obviously doing the show at the time with the game was on, but you're looking at the monitor. I was like, why am I seeing Tyler Algiers? I immediately am like, is Bichon okay?

[Daniel Dopp]

You know, Rosie asked me, should I start Tyler Algier or Zach Charbonnet? And I was like, honestly, I don't want either one of them. And she was like, all right, I'm gonna go Terrell Jennings instead. And so she didn't start either Zach Charbonnet or Tyler Algier. I felt like a terrible fantasy husband in that one because that was not.

[Stefania Bell]

But okay, all right.

[Daniel Dopp]

I'm the loser in this one. I'm Rosie's loser for the week. Who's your loser for the week?

[Stefania Bell]

My loser is. He's not a loser at all. He's an star player. But it's Justin Jefferson for the week. 7.7 fantasy points, 4 for 37, but 12 targets. Season high in targets. This is award is shared by his quarterback who has his struggles, but it's Jefferson's first single digit total fantasy points on the season. You know, he's actually, even though he's been not what you hope for based on where you drafted him in fantasy, he's still like his output. 14.8. Week 1, 11.1, 12.5, 22.6. When you thought things were getting better, he's had Carson Wentz in there, you know, who looked for him, but he did have a 12.9 production week against Philly.

[Daniel Dopp]

Is 11.8 the lowest outing that he had up until 11.1 was the lowest.

[Stefania Bell]

That was week two.

[Daniel Dopp]

Such a high floor.

[Stefania Bell]

12.9 was week seven. Yeah. So you know, JJ and Carson Wentz helped contribute to his lowest ones. And then yesterday was bad. I think to me what stood out was the receptions versus the targets, which tells you that's why you have to look for the disconnect.

[Daniel Dopp]

Yeah.

[Phil Yates]

So a couple things here. I'm going to give you guys a guess. What do you think is the highest Justin Jefferson has finished in a week this season?

[Stefania Bell]

Based on his output? I would say eighth.

[Daniel Dopp]

I'd say based on his name. Wide receiver three.

[Phil Yates]

Okay. Wide receiver eight. Stefanian nailed that right on the spot.

[Daniel Dopp]

Money.

[Phil Yates]

Go play some. I don't know.

[Stefania Bell]

I know.

[Daniel Dopp]

This was like you're a black guest. I didn't even need to guess. You could have just flipped the cards over. Stefania wins.

[Phil Yates]

Wide receiver eight is his best finish. Which you know, wide receiver eight is a week you would take.

[Stefania Bell]

We all know I'm the analytics one.

[Daniel Dopp]

That's right. You're the numbers person.

[Phil Yates]

When you draft a guy in the first five picks, you, you are expecting him to be at some point. You're probably hoping going into the season like I might get five or six top five finishes from Justin Jefferson. Right. He so far has zero of those. They have now played nine games as Minnesota. How many times do you think he has finished outside the top 25? Which by definition I didn't even calculate.

[Stefania Bell]

This one because it was so far down the screen that I didn't even add it up. Like that tells you where he's half.

[Phil Yates]

Of his game out of nine.

[Daniel Dopp]

Okay.

[Phil Yates]

So more than outside the top 25. So let's just call it what it is right now. Okay. It's a dramatic. For now. For now. Okay. Because it's very early in this player's career. It is a dramatic downgrading quarterback. Yeah. J.J. mcCarthy was all over the place yesterday. I think his final number was 20 for 44. He has been statistically near the bottom in terms of quarterback accuracy. It is not going to be anybody but JJ McCarthy unless he gets hurt again going forward. They have an amazing matchup next week against the Chicago Bears. If we don't see a monster week against Justin Jefferson next week, you are allowed to vent whatever frustration you have about using him as a first round pick. I have this idea earmarked. I'll sort of take some feedback from producers, you guys, even the people in the chat right now. I thought about on Wednesday could we rank go back to preseason ADP and find the 10 players that picked or picked highest on ADP and ranked the best to worst first round picks.

[Daniel Dopp]

Love that. Right?

[Stefania Bell]

I love that. Now I'm not even here on Wednesday.

[Daniel Dopp]

Yeah, I will.

[Phil Yates]

Listen, you could throw Malik neighbors into a different category because obviously injury, right? Of course you don't count that. But I think. And I haven't. I actually couldn't even find precision ADP last night. I missed a couple other things going on. Jefferson's got to be near the bottom. Right. Like Ash and Genthi has had some good moments of late.

[Stefania Bell]

So it's probably one of consistently underperforming week in week out.

[Phil Yates]

Yeah. So you can make that case at the very least. Christian McCaffrey, I think Jonathan Taylor went just outside the top 10. He would have been, along with Christian McCaffrey, the two best picks. But man, it has been super frustrating for Justin Jefferson. So glad you brought him to the table because I think we all deserve to kind of get our frustrations off our chest. It's no fault of his. Right. Every time you watch it.

[Daniel Dopp]

Definitely not.

[Phil Yates]

God, this guy's amazing. JJ just has to get it going. You hope going into this game next week that playing against the Bears can be a real confidence builder for their young qb.

[Daniel Dopp]

I want to say this in a way that doesn't get me in trouble. I want to be very clear. I'm not happy that somebody got hurt. However, looking at our ADP, Puka Nukua was drafted 11th. So because Malik Neighbors doesn't fit into that, he can move up into that top 10 range because he wasn't even a top 10 option in drafts.

[Phil Yates]

So who are the 10 players?

[Daniel Dopp]

Just quickly Jamar Chase, Bajan Robinson, Saquon Barkley, Justin Jefferson, Jameer Gibbs, Christian McCaffrey, CeeDee Lam, Malik neighbors, Amon Ra St. Brown, and Ashton Genty.

[Phil Yates]

Okay, so it's probably some or I think that the three that probably will get the most votes are I think Justin Jefferson, Jefferson Saquon, until the last time we saw him play Ashton Genente.

[Stefania Bell]

Ashton. Yeah, that's what I Genti has. But he's.

[Phil Yates]

He's found his footing a little bit.

[Stefania Bell]

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[Daniel Dopp]

That'll be a fun thing to dive into. All right, my loser again. I want to enter this like softly because he ended up getting hurt. I want to ask you about this, Stefania, but Garrett Wilson fell victim to an awful Justin Fields quarterbacking game. He ended up getting hurt, I believe in the second half, in the third quarter, Stefania. But even before that happened, he had three targets, zero catches, zero yards. Justin Fields was 6 of 11 for 54 passing yards. It's been unbelievable. Garrett Wilson, absolutely. And mind you, he got banged up. I do want to ask you about that.

[Phil Yates]

But the first half, two special teams touchdowns, so they barely played on offense.

[Daniel Dopp]

It was just an awful week with the way things worked out for Garrett Wilson in his first week back.

[Stefania Bell]

Right. Well, that's, this is the thing. I mean, I think what we're going to look at at the end of the season, this will be a talking point, is some of these instability injuries that these guys have where they have a knee sprain, Piersol Bowers, you know, and they end up, they think they're going to be okay because it doesn't feel that bad. It feels pretty okay walking around. They try and get back into, they do their rehab, they get back into some semblance of football activity, but you never actually can reproduce game conditions. And the proof is Garrett Wilson slid on the turf yesterday during an incomplete pass. Seemed like a harmless play. Gets up and is limping afterwards, then exits the game. And now we don't know what the status is going forward. It is the same knee that kept him out for week seven, week eight, and then they had to buy in week nine. So really a month of time. Still not quite right. If you're wondering why Ricky Piersol hasn't come back, this is the kind of thing. And look at how long it took Brock Bowers. So I just don't, you know, once you Have a setback like that, it could end up being a little bit longer.

[Phil Yates]

And keep this in mind, Garrett Wilson from this moment has about 80 hours left to get healthy because they play on Thursday night against the Patriots.

[Daniel Dopp]

Correct. Which is not great. His game log is hilarious, though. Can I quickly read you his game log this year? I'm going to be real fast. Four games. He's got four games. I'm going to give you the four good games. 29.5, 27.1, 25.9 and 20.8. Those are four like monster games in fantasy football. Here are his other four games. 6.9, 4.9, 4.0, 3.9.

[Stefania Bell]

That's what we call feast or famine.

[Phil Yates]

Seriously, this was the concern coming into the season. Right. That's why he was one of my fades in all. But I have him in one team and it was because the passing offense is not functional.

[Daniel Dopp]

Yes. It highlights how impressively skilled he is and how bad the offenses impact him 100%.

[Phil Yates]

All right, so you did your. What the heck. You did your loser. We just have what the heck's left for.

[Daniel Dopp]

Yes, you two have what the heck's left.

[Phil Yates]

Trivia.

[Daniel Dopp]

Oh.

[Phil Yates]

Oh, boy.

[Daniel Dopp]

All right.

[Phil Yates]

Who is the. For the second time in his career, this quarterback finishes the highest scoring for the week.

[Daniel Dopp]

I know the answer to this. I'm not going to say it in the quarterback.

[Phil Yates]

I'll give you a clue. It's not Lamar Jackson nor Josh Allen.

[Stefania Bell]

It's not.

[Phil Yates]

Not Jackson Dart, not Caleb Williams. Those rails were, I think two and three.

[Stefania Bell]

It's not who it wasn't. It wasn't Drake maybe. No, no, he didn't score any. I'm just a lot of people. Before you hammer me for being.

[Phil Yates]

Oh, don't worry. This is. Everybody else is sitting there like.

[Daniel Dopp]

Did he go to UC Davis by any chance?

[Phil Yates]

He.

[Daniel Dopp]

He did not.

[Phil Yates]

No.

[Daniel Dopp]

Okay. All right.

[Phil Yates]

He went to Stanford.

[Daniel Dopp]

All right, Stanford.

[Stefania Bell]

Oh, Davis Mills.

[Daniel Dopp]

Oh, there we go. There we go.

[Stefania Bell]

That educational institution in there. I was like, I got that.

[Phil Yates]

Did the Jaguars go full New York Giants yesterday or they blew a Giant. I think it was a 19 point lead versus a 26 point lead for the Giants. Anyways, Davis Mills scampered for the week. One for the week. Including a late rushing touchdown.

[Stefania Bell]

That's right.

[Phil Yates]

28.7 fantasy.

[Daniel Dopp]

Unbelievable.

[Phil Yates]

Mills. That's his career high.

[Stefania Bell]

Do you know what his start percentage was yesterday?

[Phil Yates]

I'm going to guess 0.03. Well, you know, was one of them Eddie Marlette in the war room league?

[Daniel Dopp]

No, stop it.

[Phil Yates]

Stop It.

[Stefania Bell]

No joke.

[Daniel Dopp]

That's amazing.

[Phil Yates]

So well done by him.

[Stefania Bell]

That's why that war room league desperation is.

[Phil Yates]

Right.

[Stefania Bell]

So much fun for these reasons.

[Phil Yates]

Yeah. So there was four quarterbacks in a buy 16 teams. There are some guys like you're not starting to like a Dylan Gabriel or something like that. Bryce Young. Look, Dylan.

[Stefania Bell]

Actually I said Dylan in our dynasty league.

[Daniel Dopp]

I wish I had started Dylan over either Bonicks or J.J. mcCarthy. That would have been great.

[Phil Yates]

So our. Our. Some of our fans know I'm a gigantic NBA fan and I love like the last couple of games of the season and especially that last. They always play their final games on a Sunday.

[Stefania Bell]

Yeah.

[Phil Yates]

There are guys that you. I'm a huge Celtics fan as well. Like Peyton Pritchard every year on that final Sunday. Well, maybe not this year, but like, you know, Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown will rest. They've probably clinched a high seed. And Pritchard just goes out and he just goes. He shoots, you know, 25 times. He always finishes like 36 points, 18 assists, seven rebounds. You know, he goes absolutely bonkers. Davis Mills might be that. I was looking back, I was like, this has to be a career high. Right. I did go back and check. In two prior Week 18 performances, he's been Quarterback 1 and Quarterback 4 for the week.

[Daniel Dopp]

No way.

[Phil Yates]

Davis Mills, Peyton Pritchard, Spider man meme. I love that. But I did not have Davis Mills finishing as quarterback one for the week.

[Daniel Dopp]

By the way, the Davis Mills had one assignment and it was throw the ball nonstop to Nico Collins. I don't know if we're going to talk about Nico, but like he.

[Phil Yates]

I don't have my list, but he did that. And that's back to back game.

[Daniel Dopp]

15 targets for Nico this week. Like if you're going to do that.

[Stefania Bell]

Controversy in Houston. Yeah. I don't know.

[Phil Yates]

Back to back week, by the way. Doing that. Yes.

[Stefania Bell]

Have a little fun.

[Phil Yates]

And by the way, they play the Titans next week. Juicy matchup.

[Daniel Dopp]

Great matchup. Yep.

[Stefania Bell]

Well, my. What the heck is Jacoby Myers? I mean, you brought him in because he doesn't drop passes, which means you have to throw him the ball so he can actually catch passes.

[Daniel Dopp]

To be fair, he did catch a touchdown.

[Stefania Bell]

He caught three for three.

[Phil Yates]

Yes.

[Stefania Bell]

So, you know, it did hold up. But why are we targeting Parker Washington seven times?

[Phil Yates]

Because he was my long shot in fantasy, that's why.

[Stefania Bell]

Well, thank you.

[Phil Yates]

Thank you.

[Stefania Bell]

I'm going to assume this improves going forward. There was no Brian Thomas in this game because of the ankle injury. And we don't know what the future portends for Brian Thomas as far as the injury or anything else but I just felt like okay, Jacoby Myers, just the love of him going over and the commentary thought might see a little bit more.

[Phil Yates]

So great we get to our takeaways because yeah, I really hope to go. They need him because whole. How do you come back from that loss yesterday?

[Stefania Bell]

Explain that because again Parker Washington was targeted seven times but only had three catches. Yeah.

[Phil Yates]

So Parker did score two touchdowns including a punch return touchdown.

[Stefania Bell]

I'm not. I'm not. I know.

[Phil Yates]

It's amazing. It's just funny.

[Daniel Dopp]

She had in the back of the end zone was pretty sick too. I mean this is.

[Phil Yates]

It was.

[Stefania Bell]

It was. It was not his fault.

[Daniel Dopp]

No, absolutely not. All right, let's dive into some takeaways. I'm going to kick things off because we had mentioned it. The Detroit Lions had a change in play callers on Sunday and I think you noticed it in a major way. Jared Goff, 320 passing yards, three touchdowns, 24.8 fantasy points.

[Phil Yates]

I started.

[Daniel Dopp]

You started them in start of the week.

[Stefania Bell]

Yeah.

[Daniel Dopp]

So that's great for you.

[Stefania Bell]

Did you also tell that you got long shot, you got start of the week?

[Phil Yates]

It's not. It's not finally determined yet. Yeah, it's a Jordan love in play tonight but we are hoping. Fingers crossed again, we have included some new punishments there and we're hoping that Mike has to do one of them.

[Daniel Dopp]

That's right.

[Stefania Bell]

I don't even know what it is but I'm just reading it.

[Phil Yates]

He's defying his house.

[Daniel Dopp]

Yeah. Yeah, we're in. But JMO also, who was the start of the week for both of us had a huge game. Six catches for 119 yards and a touchdown. 23.9 fantasy points. He had 16 and a half or more fantasy points in three of his.

[Stefania Bell]

We need to get JMO more involved.

[Daniel Dopp]

Sure do. That happened this week just felt different because understanding. So for those that didn't watch the game, John Morton, who came over as the new offensive coordinator once Ben Johnson left, he's been calling plays up until this point.

[Phil Yates]

Yep.

[Daniel Dopp]

But in week 10, Dan Campbell decided I'm going to call place here. And it felt like you noticed a rhythm develop. A lot of the players over the week had talked about they didn't feel like it was the same flow or rhythm of offensive play calling for the Detroit Lions. This game looked like it was the Detroit Lions of 2024 back to just scoring nonstop with an offense finding guys all over the field because Jamo and Amon Ra and Jameer Gibbs and Laporta, everybody basically ate. So this was an absolutely fantastic game. And if you have been one of these Lions guys that has one of these people on your bench saying, man, it just feels like Detroit's good, but they're not doing what they did last year, this was kind of like a going back to what it felt like. I wonder how much it's going to continue.

[Phil Yates]

Well, big test this upcoming Sunday night against the Eagles. You guys have to have some sort of wager on that. You and Mike.

[Daniel Dopp]

Me and Mike.

[Phil Yates]

So, yes, the Commanders, I said earlier, like, there's a chance that we're talking like the commanders might be like the Bengals with different uniforms right now. Like, right now feels like between the injuries and I mean, they had one of their best defensive players punched Amon Ra early in the game. He's now suspended for next week against Miami. Yep.

[Stefania Bell]

It was like a blatant, like, oh, punch.

[Daniel Dopp]

Yeah.

[Stefania Bell]

Too. It was.

[Phil Yates]

Oh, yeah. I mean, it was.

[Stefania Bell]

It was not like an incidental contact.

[Daniel Dopp]

They weren't in the middle of a scrum.

[Stefania Bell]

Like, I don't even know.

[Daniel Dopp]

I just swung at you.

[Phil Yates]

That appeal is going to be a hard one to like, justify. Yeah. You know, I punched him, but thankfully I could have punched him harder. So. No. This team. Yeah. By the way, it's such a year to year league, man. Just whenever your team is good. Don't ever apologize for winning. Never apologize for winning and never apologize for having a strong season. Because the next year the bottom could fall out. Like the Commanders who play the Dolphins this week.

[Daniel Dopp]

That's right.

[Phil Yates]

And Jalen Waddle just continues to be awesome with Tyreek Hill. There's a strong argument that Jalen Waddle is at top 12 wide receiver right now with no. Tyreek was efficient yesterday. Only seven targets, but five catches, 84 yards and a touchdown. He's played six games without Tyreek Hill, has the entire Dolphins offense, and Jalen's had 14.6 fantasy points or more in five of those six games. That's pretty good. The one exception was that game against the Browns. 1 for 15 wasn't great at all. But he's been a top 10 wide receiver in four of six games so far without Tyreek Hill. There's a reason why Miami, despite sort of toiling and potential football purgatory, did not trade away Jalen Waddle. And there's a reason why the Buffalo Bills, who played the Dolphins yesterday, reportedly tried to trade for Jalen Waddle. Because he had a long touchdown against them. So lock Waddle into your lineups.

[Stefania Bell]

It's interesting because that was my number one takeaway was exactly that. And it was that Miami obviously found a spark this week and we've said all along devonte Chan was a must start. And my question was, does Waddle now become a lineup block for you going forward? If you look at what their matchups are, next up is the Commanders in Brazil.

[Phil Yates]

I love that.

[Stefania Bell]

Then they have a bye week, then the Saints trade.

[Phil Yates]

Right. It's not Brazil, is it?

[Stefania Bell]

Oh, you know, whatever.

[Phil Yates]

Somewhere international. I was gonna say, do we have two Brazil games and I forgot.

[Stefania Bell]

No, I put Brazil, I think. I don't know why.

[Phil Yates]

A country that speaks a lot of Spanish.

[Stefania Bell]

A country that's not.

[Daniel Dopp]

They speak Portuguese.

[Stefania Bell]

Actually, it's not England or Germany.

[Phil Yates]

We speak a lot of Spanish in Spain.

[Stefania Bell]

I was trying to figure out how to. Could I get an assignment to go to Madrid for this first time ever NFL game and once I realized I couldn't, I just blocked it out of my mind.

[Daniel Dopp]

That's fair.

[Stefania Bell]

That's fair. They are playing in Madrid. But anyway, it's the Commanders that's the point.

[Daniel Dopp]

Okay.

[Stefania Bell]

Then they have a bye week, then it's the Saints, then it's the Jets. So when you think about how does that translate for fantasy football? Waddle this week to your point. 19.4 fantasy points, his third highest.

[Daniel Dopp]

Love that. I mean, it feels like once we just.

[Phil Yates]

I.

[Daniel Dopp]

It feels bad. But having two wide receivers in that offense meant we had zero fantasy wide receivers in that offense. Now you just bring it down to Jalen Waddle. All of a sudden you got a guy that we can count on week in and week out. It feels like so not celebrating a Tyree kill injury. That's not what I'm saying, of course. It's just nice to be able to.

[Stefania Bell]

I think now between the matchups, the Miami feeling like, you know, riding around in the laundry tubs in the locker room afterward, like it feels good to win. And I love the fact that they're not throwing the towel in, no pun intended, the laundry bins. But they really did step up and.

[Phil Yates]

They fought for their.

[Daniel Dopp]

Yeah, for sure.

[Stefania Bell]

In a major league in fantasy that they're not quitting.

[Daniel Dopp]

Also, it helps us in fantasy that this basically we know the Miami Dolphins. It's Devon Hn, it's Jalen Waddle. Those are the two people that we're.

[Phil Yates]

Starting Monday Call Ollie Gordon scores a touchdown on.

[Daniel Dopp]

No, they play the Commanders like they.

[Phil Yates]

Could be up 15 and they can just rush. March in for a while.

[Daniel Dopp]

That is.

[Phil Yates]

Well, they play early, so I unfortunately, that's tough. Yeah.

[Daniel Dopp]

I'm going to really quickly talk about one of the most immobile quarterbacks in the NFL being a Set it and forget it QB for your fantasy squad.

[Stefania Bell]

I know who you're going with.

[Daniel Dopp]

Matthew Stafford. 280 passing yards and four touchdowns this week. Second straight game with 280 and four touchdowns. The dude is unbelievable. Only quarterback in NFL history with four touchdowns and zero interceptions in three straight games. Field. I saw you tweet that out last night. He has now scored 25 and a half fantasy points in five of his last six games. He leads the NFL in passing touchdowns. He's also dead last with negative nine rushing yards. So like it's all right. On the other side of it. I was excited to see that he was officially leading in touchdowns and dead last in rushing yards. I wanted the disparity, right? Exactly.

[Stefania Bell]

He's the number two fantasy quarterback on the week. Number six on the season. Number six. Nobody wanted him. Oh, do you remember when his back was a big problem in the preseason? Do you remember how that was a worry and he was forecasting I was.

[Phil Yates]

Going to put fantasy teams on his back for a while.

[Stefania Bell]

He's been unbelievable. I'm just going to say that I kept telling you not to worry about it and by the way, I might have said not to worry about it. Like he was going to be there for his offensive skill position. Players didn't know that he was going to be one of the people that you would consider starting in fantasy. But listen, if you're going to the fantasy playoffs and you got injuries at quarterback, it might be somebody to consider.

[Phil Yates]

Picking up and really interesting test this weekend.

[Stefania Bell]

Yep.

[Phil Yates]

Seahawks. Seahawks. Yeah. I am not. Listen, I always, I hate this, like I saw some pushback to the tweet was like, you know, do it against a real opponent. I don't care when you make NFL history. I don't care if you're playing the JV squad of like directional state. Like you made NFL history. He's playing amazing. We'll have a very thoughtful conversation about how high to rank Matthew Stafford this week because even weeks in which a quarterback does not play a great defense sometimes. I lost Sam Darling yesterday. You throw the ball 15 times, you don't want it all. And you have like nine fantasy points, by the way.

[Daniel Dopp]

Can I just say that guys sitting on their couch being like do it against real defenses is like you couldn't make it in the NFL in the first place like this. This not real defense is Twitter.

[Phil Yates]

It's a stupid. You know how it goes.

[Stefania Bell]

Also it I think it is. There is something. It's always different when it's divisional rivalries.

[Daniel Dopp]

Always.

[Stefania Bell]

The NFC west is tough no matter every. If you've been watching them as many years as I have, you know that no matter who's good and who's not, the Niners defense is obviously decimated. So that's probably where that response is coming from. But nonetheless, like they he just put an exclamation point on his performance yesterday and I think that he will be tough in Seattle. He seasoned. He now knows this division really, really well.

[Daniel Dopp]

Yeah, this is going to be an.

[Stefania Bell]

Awesome take nothing for granted.

[Phil Yates]

I think the wildest stat of the day yesterday, on a day in which Jonathan Taylor had 49.6 fantasy points, is that Matthew Stafford, for the first time in his illustrious super bowl winning future Pro Football hall of Fame career, is now not a losing quarterback in terms of record.

[Daniel Dopp]

No way.

[Phil Yates]

He is now 115, 115 and one as a starting quarterback. Wow.

[Daniel Dopp]

All those years of the Lions, no one needed this. No one threw that off his back.

[Stefania Bell]

He's like, I am freaking insane. That. That's crazy.

[Phil Yates]

I believe his rookie season was Owens. No, you guys got him with the O6. Oh, no. He went. He was part of the Owen 16.

[Daniel Dopp]

He was part of the Owen 16 season.

[Phil Yates]

So I mean, again, I love Matthew. It's a good reminder that there's much more context to quarterback context to quarterback wins and losses. But I thought that was an insane stat. From our ESPN analytics.

[Stefania Bell]

That is amazing.

[Daniel Dopp]

Matthew Stafford was drafted in 2009. Oh, and 16 happened in 2008.

[Phil Yates]

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[Phil Yates]

My next takeaway is the Bears backfield is still DeAndre Swift.

[Daniel Dopp]

For right now it is did you.

[Stefania Bell]

Copy off my homework?

[Phil Yates]

You went to Princeton. I wouldn't of course he played 62% of the snaps.

[Daniel Dopp]

Yep.

[Phil Yates]

38 for Kyle Manangai. The good news is nobody played a snap besides those two from the backfield. 13 to 7 was the carries edge. That's not a gigantic decisive edge for DeAndre Swift and Manangai did find the end zone but 8 targets to 18 targets.

[Stefania Bell]

That was my point.

[Phil Yates]

5 catches for him. Yep. So I still think DeAndre Swift hangs on to RB to low end RB2 value and Manungai is incredibly valuable as an insurance back but if you're starting him hopefully it's only in week 14 when there's six teams on a buy and you are just praying he scores a touchdown.

[Stefania Bell]

It's so funny because of my little note to myself is DeAndre Swift is the running back you want in the Bears backfield when he's healthy because of his value in the passing game. So it would just makes it that becomes so you know Mike Clay has talked about it and I hate to give him credit so hopefully we all do. He's not listening but the we are really seeing this difference and I know I'm looking at it much more now in my recent years of playing fantasy football compared to my early years. You have to be a running back who catches passes like he just jumps your value up so much. Such a difference maker and there's very few who and Jonathan Taylor does catch some passes but like you think about the running you know Christian McCaffrey is the exact opposite. Like he is a pass catcher first.

[Phil Yates]

Without an 18 yard run or longer than 18 yards. We found out yesterday as we learned.

[Stefania Bell]

When that would have been trivia since.

[Phil Yates]

We know Mike's not listening we should he's he works so hard.

[Daniel Dopp]

He's incredibly thought he's really good.

[Phil Yates]

Great man, handsome, awesome teammates.

[Stefania Bell]

Bridge. Let's bridge too much.

[Phil Yates]

It was the great teammate.

[Daniel Dopp]

That's what it was. Yeah he's handsome but not a good teammate.

[Phil Yates]

All right, who's next?

[Stefania Bell]

I kid I'm going To talk about.

[Daniel Dopp]

Roma dun, go from the Bears to the Bears 20 fantasy point game after a dud, Roma dun responds in a major way. 10 targets, six catches, 86 yards and a touchdown for 20.6 fantasy points. Fifth game of the season with either 100 yards or a receiving touchdown. Only his third game this year with 10 targets though, because this is one of those offenses. Caleb Williams spreads it around.

[Stefania Bell]

Yep.

[Phil Yates]

DJ Moore got banged up yesterday. I think Rome is. I do think that this is kind of where I've landed with Rome is he fits into this category where it's like just playing, you're just playing him. That's exactly where he's at. He's not, not a top five wide receiver, not a top ten wide receiver, but he's better than 20th. And I'm playing Roma Dunze week in and week out. But Caleb Williams building some confidence. So I'm with you there.

[Daniel Dopp]

When did DJ Moore leave that game?

[Phil Yates]

I think it was so he got hurt in the first half. He came out late in the set. Like he came out late from halftime. Okay. And then it's a shoulder injury. So we'll see. They played the Vikings next week. We'll see whether he is available. Luther Burden, I'd say I think Luther Burden's just in general going to see a rise in snaps because Alamade Zakay has had some tough drops yesterday.

[Daniel Dopp]

Speaking of Verizon, I don't know about snaps, but we. So you and I have just been talking about this back and forth with Mike. We both chose Colston Loveland as our start of the week because we wanted to believe that he was going to get maybe a little bit more run. Didn't have a huge game here, but he certainly got more looks than Cole Comet did.

[Phil Yates]

He did, yeah. And I'll just say this with Colson Loveland is it. He's going to be, you know, going to need some things to go his favor to be a weekly starter in redraft at any point this season. Who. Boy, that kid's a good looking player. Ben Johnson. With Caleb Williams, Roma, Dunze, Colston Loveland and Luther Burton building blocks of his young team. Those guys are all in their first or second year. Like, whoo, baby, that is going to be a fun offense for a long time. I'm gonna go to the Giants, the other team in this game. Let's just do this in a couple of different conversations. One, Stefania, the expository. He did leave this game yesterday.

[Stefania Bell]

Yes, he left the game with a concussion. Jackson Dart did. And We've seen him be evaluated for this injury. Is it four times?

[Phil Yates]

Four times.

[Stefania Bell]

And so listen, we've talked about how he puts himself at risk because of the way he plays. And you thought this might be coming. Never like to see it. There's a couple things I will say. If you saw he went to the tent first, then he went back to the locker room, it always tells you they're doing a more detailed concussion eval because what they're seeing there is inconclusive or they want to look at some further things back in locker room. And I will also say, you know, Brian Dable, remember the Giants got fined for an issue related to this when it appeared that it appeared. We saw a video Brian Dable yelling at the head team physician. Frustration about it taking too long for the evaluation yesterday. Brian Dable was the one who removed Jackson Dart because he didn't look right. And he said that he looked wobbly. And so he pulled him out for evaluation and had the staff look at him. So I do want to give that acknowledgment because that's an important flip.

[Daniel Dopp]

So that was Brian, not the eye in the sky that called that.

[Stefania Bell]

No, that was, that was that coach. And he talked about it afterwards and not in a way of like taking credit for it, but people were sort of asking what happened because Jackson Dart was of course trying to go back out on the field because that's how he's wired. So stay tuned. We'll see how long, how long his.

[Phil Yates]

Recovery is the first rookie quarterback to ever run for a touchdown in five straight games. Okay. He had, he was quarterback three, quarterback two yesterday, and he didn't even play the entire game. All right. He was, you know, on a per play basis, probably the best quarterback in all of fantasy football yesterday. Top three quarterback pending Monday Night Football for the third time in five weeks.

[Daniel Dopp]

Also, I didn't expect him to throw for 242 passing yards.

[Phil Yates]

Awesome throwing the Bears definitely helped you out in that regard. But in his last five games, quarterback three, quarterback three, quarterback seven, quarterback two, quarterback 13. He's been amazing. He has seven rushing touchdowns since week four.

[Daniel Dopp]

It's amazing.

[Phil Yates]

He is. If he's healthy, lock it in. Fantasy starter.

[Daniel Dopp]

Yep.

[Phil Yates]

With major upside. But this is the conversation we have to have now is that I, I, we just said it. He's been checked for a concussion four times. The Giants are running him. And this is the, this is, and this is a little bit of fantasy, a little bit of real life. As I under there is a little bit of a push pull here right now as a coach. Brian Dabel, no mystery, is coaching for his job every single week. If at some point you told me they removed him as head coach, I wouldn't be totally stunned.

[Daniel Dopp]

Right.

[Phil Yates]

They lose another game, which they had a 10 point fourth quarter lead yesterday. If I'm the Giants ownership, what I am telling Brian Dabel is Jackson gives us hope in the future. You need to be as smart as humanly possible. What's more important to us now is Jackson Dart coming out of the season healthy.

[Stefania Bell]

Yes.

[Phil Yates]

Than us winning a couple of extra games to go 5 and 12 versus 3 and 14. Right. Because it's becoming a problem. They're running him so much. He's, you know, their quarterbacks take a lot of hits. Justin Herbert, Drake May is taking a lot of hits. Obviously. Jaden Daniels took a lot of hits. Guys who are you just play behind offensive lines that are porous. Obviously a lot of hits, but man alive, are they playing him. It's like a kitchen sink effort every single week. It really is to win the game. Running him, running him, running him some more. He's a great runner. I get that. But when you've been checked four times for a concussion, like, at some point you have to say to yourself, all right, I know, I know that Tyrone.

[Stefania Bell]

Tracy, run the ball. Take it off the quarterback.

[Phil Yates]

We don't know if he plays next week. Obviously it's too soon to tell. If he does, he'll be ranked very, very high obviously as well. But I do wonder if at some point the Giants are like, all right, we gotta probably a bit be a bit more selective. This happens to all the great running quarterbacks maybe except Lamar Jackson because he's the best athlete we've ever seen at the position. Josh Allen runs less now compared to where he was. Cam Newton eventually stopped running. Like this just happens because teams understand preservation of these bodies is more important than a couple of extra yards or a couple of extra scores over the course of a season.

[Daniel Dopp]

If I'm just a Giants, like, putting myself in like the mold of a Giants fan too, like, we're not playing for. We're playing for pride right now. And I'm fine to play for pride, but not damaging our future chances at the same time. Because I've got Malik neighbors that I'm super stoked about as a Giants fan. I still got Cam Scaboo. That kid came in and brought a ton of energy this year. Now I got Jackson. I know. So it's like, what are we doing here? Like I want to be excited about the future. Not.

[Stefania Bell]

Not mortgage about being excited. Is Trayon Henderson.

[Daniel Dopp]

Oh, my gosh.

[Stefania Bell]

Ready to claim the starting running back role in New England? Right.

[Daniel Dopp]

Patriots were sick to their stomach watching that happen.

[Stefania Bell]

Fantasy points more than doubles. His best performance of the season. It's unclear how long Randre will be out. Is it Terrell or Terrell? Terrell Jennings, who left with a knee injury as well. 147 yards for Mondre. Also caught, you know, passes. Next game is Thursday night.

[Phil Yates]

Yeah. So we'll see whether Ramon Dre is available on Thursday night.

[Stefania Bell]

My guess is that just to that point is he did not practice at all. And it's this toe injury that you don't know if that was like, are we going to save it, let him practice and kind of push him in for Thursday or if he's really not progressing the way they'd hoped.

[Phil Yates]

So I think there are a couple different outcomes here. So obviously if he. If Ramon Dre is out on Thursday, then you know, we have confidence in a good matchup for Trevion Henderson. He had two runs of 55 yards. Right. I think the other path here is that Ramondre either returns in week 11 or sometime soon and that what you hope is the Patriots yesterday reminded of some of why they used a second round pick on Trayvon and say, okay, hey, Ramondra is still the guy and he will get the goal line opportunities and the third and ones and stuff like that. But let's make sure we tap into Trayvon, who I continue to think has a little bit of like that Tony Pollard to him. When Tony was with the Giants. I'm sorry, with the Cowboys running opposite of Zeke Elliott, it was like, oh my God, like every time he touches the football, he's a threat to hit a big one. It's just they never give him the ball and like a run up the B gap. It's like pitches tosses, which he did have a 50, 55 yard touchdown and inside run yesterday. But that late game touchdown was. That was pure speed, baby. Yeah, it was pure speed. So I think, I think independent of Ramon Dre Stevenson status for week 11, I think the stock is going to trend up a little bit for Travion Henderson. Not to the point that we hoped.

[Stefania Bell]

Number four running back on the week so far.

[Phil Yates]

Wow. Last takeaway for me and then we can move to whatever Daniel has left is. I think we deserve. We should give a little more shine to Chris Olave.

[Daniel Dopp]

Okay.

[Phil Yates]

And Tyler Schuck looked really good yesterday. What a win that was for the Saints 17 to 7 over the Panthers.

[Daniel Dopp]

15.

[Phil Yates]

Here's the last five games for Chris Olavier. 15.8, 26.8, 14, 8.7, not great there and 21.4.

[Daniel Dopp]

That's pretty good.

[Phil Yates]

He just, and he had a big 62 yard touchdown catch yesterday. Really intriguing player. Still so young that like he's going to go into the prime of his career soon if Shuck emerges or if the Saints drive to quarterback this upcoming season. Chris Olavi deserves a bit more shine, a lot of volume. They go into their buy this upcoming week, but coming out of it, probably another top 20 week for Chris Olavi.

[Stefania Bell]

He really does, you know, and he had such a difficult season last year with the concussion issues that he had. There were people wondering if he should return to football. So it's really nice to see him, you know, despite the team having all of the struggles that they do and you know, they're not going anywhere at the end of the season. But he plays hard and he's having a great year.

[Daniel Dopp]

I really hope they just keep shucking it out there to him.

[Phil Yates]

Yeah, well done.

[Daniel Dopp]

I got two. I actually am, I have three, but I'm going to leave one for later on. Well, one of them is a Jerry Judy thing and Mike had a great call on Jerry Judy. I'm going to let him talk about that on Wednesday, but just in case you didn't know, Mike told you to start Jerry Judy this week and it worked out. But I want to give Mike the flowers for that. He'll come in and talk about it on Wednesday when we look ahead at that Browns offense. Drake London topped 24 fantasy points for the fourth time in five games this week. What he has been doing at the wide receiver spot has been unreal. Six catches, 104 yards and a touchdown. He now has at least six catches and 100 yards and a touchdown, all three of them in four of five games. He has been unbelievable. It's week 10. He is 158 fantasy points. The number two wide receiver on this team has 32. That's Darnell Mooney. There is nobody else. No one else. Kyle Pitts has become the number two pass catcher in this offense, which is crazy. But Drake London just giving him the flowers because this dude has been unbelievable this year.

[Phil Yates]

Been a bad week for receivers, but believe it or not, Drake London is currently wide receiver one with 24.4. If that holds and we still have a game tonight, he would be wide receiver one for the third time in his Last four games. Wow.

[Daniel Dopp]

Amazing. All right, I got one. Last 1. Trey McBride extends his touchdown streak to four games. But I think the most important thing here, Trey McBride is awesome. Like, he's so good. Sixteen and a half fantasy points in four straight games. You want to know the other players in the NFL that have 16 and a half fantasy points in four straight games? Jonathan Taylor.

[Phil Yates]

Four straight.

[Daniel Dopp]

Four straight.

[Phil Yates]

Not active.

[Stefania Bell]

No, because Jonathan Taylor had.

[Phil Yates]

You mean at some point this season?

[Daniel Dopp]

Oh, sorry. I looked at the. Since week. Over the last, like, weeks, from week six through week ten, I guess that's five games. Okay, Week six through week ten.

[Phil Yates]

Taylor didn't get there last week, but whatever. Give me the names.

[Daniel Dopp]

JT, CMC, Jamar Chase, JSN, Devon Achan and Trey McBride.

[Phil Yates]

I'm guessing those are guys who have done it in four of the five weeks there.

[Daniel Dopp]

Four. Yes. Four of the five weeks. That's probably because of the fact there are bi weeks in there. That's on me for looking that up. However, the point is, when I'm looking at this Cardinals offense, the one thing that I wanted to see was after the last couple weeks, does Jacoby Brissette just continue to understand the assignment? He threw the ball to Trey McBride a million times. Trey McBride had 16, had 24 fantasy points in this one. He also threw the ball to Marvin Harrison Jr. 12 times. I know it was only 3 for 33 in a touchdown, but the idea that he threw the ball 12 times to Marvin Harrison Jr. And 13 times to Terry McBride is what we want from the quarterback of the Arizona Cardinals.

[Phil Yates]

Period.

[Daniel Dopp]

End of story.

[Phil Yates]

All right.

[Stefania Bell]

I didn't. I admittedly did not watch the entirety of this game.

[Phil Yates]

It was over after the football court.

[Daniel Dopp]

It was so bad. Stefania.

[Stefania Bell]

Right. So my question was really like, was the. The passing volume, did it just go up, stay up? Because they were trying to play. They were trying to play catch up because Seattle just demolished.

[Daniel Dopp]

They had two fumbled, like, two fumbles returned. Four touchdowns by DeMarcus Lawrence. Yes, it was unbelievable.

[Phil Yates]

I think Brissette threw the ball 50 plus times.

[Stefania Bell]

Because.

[Phil Yates]

Final answer is Jacoby Brissette threw the ball up 44 times and Keaton Slovis threw it once.

[Daniel Dopp]

Okay, okay.

[Stefania Bell]

Because that. That. I just wonder, like, the volume of passing was huge. Because they had to be.

[Phil Yates]

Yep.

[Stefania Bell]

Right. Had to be. So I don't know, does it. Is it. Does it remain. Does it know what's going to happen with their quarterback situation? Although I think Jacoby Brissette is for.

[Daniel Dopp]

The next three weeks, we know he's.

[Stefania Bell]

Locked in for three weeks and maybe the rest of the year.

[Daniel Dopp]

Yep. All right, let's talk about some major injuries here, Stefania. Unfortunately, we can rip some of these. We already talked about Jackson Dart.

[Stefania Bell]

There's just a. There really. We don't have, you know, on Monday. We don't have a ton of information. So these are just names that you should, should start thinking about. Pay attention to what comes out. We already talked about Jackson Dart, Dalton Kincaid with a hamstring issue left that game. If you were, if you were watching that game. Devonte Adams, an oblique injury. And anybody who was watching that, if you saw he kind of grabbed his back and it looked to me like he was having a back spasm. But a reminder that your obliques wrap all the way around. They're kind of in that area. They're calling it an oblique injury. Sounds like he possibly could have returned is what they're thinking. So hopefully not anything serious.

[Phil Yates]

And Sean McVeigh will definitely tell us he's the best.

[Stefania Bell]

He is. And also Rams medical staff is great at giving the players who are veteran what they need.

[Daniel Dopp]

Oh, yeah.

[Stefania Bell]

And resting them appropriately. So don't. Devonte Adams, by the way, wanted to go back in last night because he saw that they were in the red zone and he was like trying to get so, so funny. Love the competition. Garrett Wilson, we already mentioned left with the knee injury and very unclear what the future holds. A Ronda Gadskin left knee. If you saw this in the game last night, he basically knocked knees with a defender. And when you have that knee to knee contact, you see it in the NBA all the time. In the NBA, it typically results in like a bone bruise. You know, bones are hard and when they. Your very thin skin right there. When you knock one against the other, that's bad. He looked like he was really uncomfortable. Left the game. Ruled out in the third quarter. Scheduled for an MRI today. We'll see what happens. You know, there's no reason to speculate until we have a little bit more information. But keep your ears to the ground on this one because he's been so valuable.

[Phil Yates]

Sean McVeigh will help you. Jim Harbaugh will not. He will probably say he avoided the amputation. Other than that, we have nothing.

[Stefania Bell]

And this is what you hear from Jim Harbaugh? Yeah, he's working through some things.

[Daniel Dopp]

Yeah, that's.

[Stefania Bell]

And each pretty good. Tomorrow is better. You know, tomorrow will be better than yesterday.

[Phil Yates]

Sun's gonna come tomorrow. And when it does, we'll take a.

[Stefania Bell]

Look and do you remember Naji Harris before the season with the eye injury Every. I was down there at training camp during when that was going. He's like, yeah, you know, he's doing today's. Today's better day than yesterday. And every day people were asking, he's wearing a visor, he's working on the sidelines. What are we seeing? Yeah, he's doing some stuff. I'm like, thanks for the help. People are trying to look in the visor to see what they can see. Harbaugh gives nothing. There's nothing. It's working for them. By the way, one person who's not on the list that it just made me think of was Justin Herbert yet again took an injury and this time that did not look good with the ankle. This is we. I gave the stats on FF now before. He's the only player when I was giving all the high ankle sprains stats. He's the only quarterback who's dealt with a high ankle sprain that we have documented injury that played through it, never missed time. They taped him back up, they kind of spatted it. When you put more tape over the outside of the shoe yesterday, he goes back in. But keep your eye on Justin Herbert. Wouldn't be surprised if he ends up on the injury report.

[Phil Yates]

Okay, one tough ombre.

[Daniel Dopp]

Yeah, we will continue to watch that throughout the week. Let's dive into a few studs and duds here and I'm gonna start with Breeze hall because Breece hall was awesome this week. 21 touches over 80 yards on the ground, but really he came alive on that screen pass. He had a beautiful 40, was a 42 yard, 42 yard, 42 yard screen pass that he took to the house that looked great. Played 70% of the snaps. Honestly, the majority of this jets offense was just Breece Hall. I mean they were running the ball nonstop. So Bree sweeted him coming in. It was a tough matchup against the Browns, but he absolutely delivered with over 19 and a half fantasy points. A really nice game from Breeze.

[Phil Yates]

We've talked about basically every Bear so far besides Caleb Williams. Caleb Williams winning Monday Night Football is a top three quarterback, 25.1 fantasy points, notably back to back big games as a rusher for Caleb Williams who had what ended up being the game winning 18 yard rushing touchdown and I got to tell you, huge fourth quarter from Caleb Williams. They are also right now the kings of the almost big plays in Chicago. Six drops yesterday according to, I think PFFs charting. If they hold on to a couple more of these, Caleb's numbers could be a whole lot better.

[Stefania Bell]

Yeah, yeah. I'm going to give a shout out to Mecca Buca who comes in with a nice game. 13 targets. Only caught six of them, but very important six with a touchdown. Even though the Buccaneers lost, I think people were wondering about Igbuka. He's been a little bit banged up and I think people forgot about that because we think about the big injuries, the Mike Evans and the broken collarbone and Chris Godwin who hasn't been available and Igbuka was dealing with a soft tissue injury of his own, so he hasn't been quite himself. I liked what I saw from him yesterday, even though unfortunately it was a loss.

[Daniel Dopp]

I also liked what I saw from Juwan Johnson in this offense. We went from Juwan Johnson being a startable tight end at the beginning of the year, surprisingly to us, mind you, to scoring under six fantasy points for three games now. You can drop them. Forget about it now. He scored over 10 fantasy points in four straight, including 19.2 this week. Four for 92 and a touchdown. No Rashid Shahid in this offense now. So Joanne Johnson may come back and start being a thing if you need something at the tight end spot.

[Phil Yates]

Yep. What's the comeback from their buy which they are on this upcoming week along with the Colts. Ladman Conkey stacks another big game together this week.

[Stefania Bell]

Yeah.

[Phil Yates]

Yeah, lad was it four for 105. One hundred and something touchdown there for lad McConkey. Keenan Allen grats on becoming the Chargers all time reception, but it was the lad McConkey show for the like second straight week. @ least in that Chargers receiver room. Water has found its level there.

[Daniel Dopp]

Can I give one more shout out?

[Phil Yates]

Sure. Yeah.

[Stefania Bell]

Do.

[Daniel Dopp]

Do it just the Seahawks defense, like if you did play them, they scored 21 fantasy points like both them and the jets had two defensive touchdowns. If you played either of those defenses, all of a sudden you're like, wow, they scored more than probably half of the guys that you actually started. All right, let's dive into some duds. Rashad White, I mean, is it a dud when you score 10 fantasy points, but it just doesn't feel good.

[Phil Yates]

Well, two things to note here. The Patriots streak is over. The Patriots had not allowed a running back to reach 50 rushing yards in a game 53. And it wasn't Rashad White, it was Sean Tucker.

[Daniel Dopp]

Yeah.

[Phil Yates]

So Bucky Irving of course remains out. So he's the number two running back there. We'll keep an eye on Bucky status. But yeah, you know I just. I think when you see Rashad White, starting Bucks running back, you're thinking to yourself, top 10, top 12.

[Daniel Dopp]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Phil Yates]

Express my pessimism going into the week, and I was not pessimistic enough as under Fantas 11 fantasy points for him.

[Stefania Bell]

Josh Allen.

[Phil Yates]

I know what happened in that game, guys.

[Stefania Bell]

I don't even need sets. Like, just the game. It was. It was.

[Phil Yates]

Give me them if you want it.

[Stefania Bell]

Yeah, please do. Because my if. To me, it was just.

[Phil Yates]

Just.

[Stefania Bell]

If you've watched it, it was. The Buffalo looked awful. It was like, as good as they looked when they had a big win. This was against the Chiefs. This was the exact opposite. They look like the bye week. I really do think there's a thing to this, by the way, that when players get out of their rhythm sometimes, because we talk about how in the preseason there's so much acclimation that's put into it, and players who like to play in the preseason, they like all of it. They go. They show up at a certain time, they put their uniforms on, they go through warmups. They do all these things. When you take a bye week, which obviously their bodies need for recovery. I'm not saying there shouldn't be a bye week, but it takes them out of that routine. And I think sometimes some teams come back flat. I don't know what it is that Andy Reid does, because the Chiefs are always ready after a bye week and he is prepared. This was like the team was still before.

[Phil Yates]

People get mad at you. They did play last week. It was against the Chiefs, I think is a similar thing, though. I think they emptied the tank last week.

[Stefania Bell]

Yeah.

[Phil Yates]

To beat the Chiefs, basically, because, yeah, they came out of their bomb.

[Stefania Bell]

That's how bad they looked yesterday.

[Phil Yates]

But it's. I think it is. I think what you're on to is. No, I think it's an energy thing because I think that, like, they. They came out of their buy to play the Chiefs and were so hyped.

[Daniel Dopp]

125% of their efforts.

[Phil Yates]

Yeah, that was like the game. And I almost. It almost felt like they came out flat this week. Like they hadn't played a normal game the week prior. So I think you're onto something there. They looked completely out of sorts of. Josh ends up with over 300 passing yards and two passing touchdowns, but he had two turnovers. And this Bills team at 6 and 3 was not what I had expected for them. They play the Bucks this week. This team is still good. They're very good. But Buffalo, Baltimore, all of These teams that aren't Kansas City, that have been punching in the AFC for a few years to, I think Baltimore, Kansas City. I'm sorry, Baltimore, Buffalo, maybe Houston feels this way. I don't think they're quite in that same territory. They're saying to themselves, like, we don't have another year where we can just be pretty good. We need to win one of these.

[Stefania Bell]

And maybe there's a bit of it, too, is like, you know, they look at the Dolphins and are like, okay, you know, we just beat the Chiefs. We're gonna. We're just. We're going down here. We don't, you know, And I think also they don't think weather's gonna be an issue because it's not. You know, they're used to dealing with lake effect snow. This. How bad can it be in Miami? It was wet. It. You know, it was. They were just out of sync. The entire office wasn't great.

[Phil Yates]

And we had.

[Stefania Bell]

Apparently they put me out of sync too, because I thought they want to.

[Phil Yates]

Buy last week, but Miami had like 10 squalls yesterday.

[Stefania Bell]

Yeah.

[Phil Yates]

20 minute showers. It's just like.

[Daniel Dopp]

Anyways, one last one. Michael Pittman had a dud. He's been pretty consistent so far this year. One of the guys that, like, you can count on week in, week out. He's not like a sexy guy, like, Right. But he's been.

[Phil Yates]

His wife might disagree.

[Daniel Dopp]

Thank you very much, Field Yates. Thank you for that. But however, 20 straight fantasy points in the previous three games. Now I'm trying to just really pivot from that because now I feel really bad. But only four fantasy points in this one. In spite of how good looking he was, it was not a good looking performance.

[Phil Yates]

That's. I tell you. No.

[Stefania Bell]

He's a great teammate, though, because he's going to be just happy because the Colts.

[Phil Yates]

Yep.

[Daniel Dopp]

And they got to buy this week. What? You just mentioned field. So we'll talk about that with the Colts tomorrow. All right.

[Phil Yates]

Right.

[Daniel Dopp]

Let's dive into our Monday Night Football preview. Eagles at Packers. We are really hoping that Jordan Love just selfishly for Field and I had sort of a down game this week.

[Phil Yates]

Because of 35 Mike needs.

[Daniel Dopp]

Yeah, Mike, is it 35. Okay. He doesn't even need a down game this week. He needs like a lifetime game right now.

[Phil Yates]

Yeah, he needs lifetime game. I actually think we're kind of straightforward with these two teams going into tonight. Right. It's not who to play, it's how much do you get out of these players. Right.

[Stefania Bell]

Yeah. My whole question for the game is who steps up as the packers pack.

[Daniel Dopp]

Gotta be Dobbs. Right.

[Phil Yates]

He has been very well targeted.

[Stefania Bell]

Golden's hurt, so it's.

[Phil Yates]

How much do you see from Romeo Dobbs? Yep. Can he keep up this pace which he has been on, which is like close to a 25% target share for the last five games? On top of that, does Luke Musgrave fill in entirely for Tucker Craft? Does he play most of the snaps? Does he get five targets? Does he get one target? This is not Tucker Craft inability, but second round pick, a guy they definitely believed in when he came out of Oregon State. So on the Packer side, I think those two things are it.

[Daniel Dopp]

Yep.

[Phil Yates]

And then on the Eagles side, I don't know. Philadelphia, it's really not like you start Jalen Hurts, you start AJ Brown, you start devonte Smith, you start Saquon Barkley, you start Dallas Goddard, and you just hope they get a lot of points.

[Daniel Dopp]

Yep, that's really it. You starting everybody else.

[Phil Yates]

So.

[Stefania Bell]

And I'm kind of curious to see Christian Watson looked. Has looked really quite good. You know, I didn't expect him to look so good so quickly. And where does. Where does he fit in? Like, does his role continue to grow because of how good he looks? And especially with the loss of Tucker.

[Daniel Dopp]

Craft, I wonder, do you guys have anybody important in this game going in any of your squads?

[Phil Yates]

I do not, but I play in this league with some buddies around here and we do a weekly loser punishment. Lois. Oh, yeah, you texted us this and I thought it was coming. I thought it came down to a Ronda Gadson and John Warren last night. It turns out this is not. I need Josh Jacobs to go 14 or under and I will avoid the punishment. If not, I might be doing Lord knows what.

[Daniel Dopp]

Okay. All right. I need Devonte Smith to score under 24 fantasy points to beat Dan Graziano in the fantasy football now show league in a matchup of the only Dan's.

[Phil Yates]

I think that that league is competitive. So did you get Moody or no?

[Stefania Bell]

So I'm facing Moody in both the FF now league and the focus league.

[Phil Yates]

Oh, love that.

[Daniel Dopp]

And Moody's been a wagon this year too.

[Stefania Bell]

I know. And it's. It's really. He's stressing me out is what he's doing now.

[Daniel Dopp]

You know what? You should hop into the chat and ask him some questions about your lineup.

[Stefania Bell]

So right now in the FF now league, I'm up.

[Phil Yates]

You are projected to win.

[Stefania Bell]

I'm projected to win. He still has A.J.

[Phil Yates]

Brown and Dallas Goddard and he needs about 37 points.

[Stefania Bell]

Yeah. So we're going to hope for. He can have 36. That's what I'm going to donate that. But then in the show league, like, he is definitely gonna win. He's projected, like, 7, 80%. Who do I. Oh, yeah. Like, I need Dallas Goddard. So I would. I'm already so terrible in the show league that I will sacrifice.

[Phil Yates]

Good team, Moody.

[Stefania Bell]

You can take that one upset of.

[Daniel Dopp]

The week, but you're gonna sacrifice Eric Moody to get a win in fantasy football.

[Stefania Bell]

No, I'm saying I'll sacrifice myself where I'm already. As long I don't want to come and laugh. Right, right.

[Daniel Dopp]

You want to get one win at least. So you're like, I'll sacrifice a loss here to get a win. This is what happens when you play in too many fantasy football leagues.

[Stefania Bell]

America is with me.

[Daniel Dopp]

Yes. Yes.

[Stefania Bell]

Start thinking teams were on by that.

[Daniel Dopp]

Weren'T you know how cool it would be to play in, like, two fantasy football leagues again?

[Phil Yates]

I think I might be alive in the show league.

[Daniel Dopp]

Really?

[Phil Yates]

I do this every year. I. Two years ago, I won it. Last year, I dug myself in a gigantic hole. This one's not quite as big, but.

[Daniel Dopp]

Okay. I already lost to Mike Clay this week in the fantasy focus show league, unfortunately. So I am out.

[Stefania Bell]

Where. Where. Where are we in that? Like, how is he?

[Daniel Dopp]

While you guys are looking up some.

[Stefania Bell]

Of that stuff, first trophy smack is second.

[Phil Yates]

Yeah, no big deal. I'm sorry.

[Stefania Bell]

Producer Zach is in first right now.

[Daniel Dopp]

Producer Zach is in my ear saying, let's take a question from. From some of the people over at our YouTube chat. So, Zach, what's. Our first question comes from BC Media. Do we believe that Josh Jacobs can get to 16.4 points tonight and help me get the win? We just talked about this.

[Phil Yates]

Respectfully. Respectfully, BC Media, we think it's possible. We'd also prefer to not happen just under actually. Well, my thing is this. I either want him to score, like, 13.5 or 50. Yeah, right. Like, so BC media can enjoy the night.

[Daniel Dopp]

Exactly.

[Phil Yates]

Right.

[Daniel Dopp]

If I'm gonna lose, I don't want to lose. Because someone gets 16.7 when they needed 16.5. I want them to score 34 so that I just feel like, you know what? They had it. This was their night. Exactly. All right. Another question from our YouTube chat here. This one comes from something hoops. Basketball. It's a long name, but they really like basketball. J. Hoops Basketball wants to know, does A.J. brown get me seven points tonight?

[Stefania Bell]

He can have one touchdown and then stop scoring.

[Daniel Dopp]

One touchdown. One touchdown.

[Stefania Bell]

It works.

[Daniel Dopp]

Okay, that will. Because it'll be at least one catch for one yard.

[Stefania Bell]

Yeah, I think so.

[Phil Yates]

I think he's coming out of there by, you know, a little bit of self scouting. Remind them like, you know, A.J. brown, squeaky wheel.

[Daniel Dopp]

Yeah. All right, let's do one more before we get out of here on a Monday. Last one comes from Greg Mugs.

[Stefania Bell]

Serious, serious question.

[Daniel Dopp]

Do I trade Henry Sutton and Addison for Jalen Warren and Justin Jefferson? If you can get Jalen Warren and Justin Jefferson.

[Stefania Bell]

Oh, my gosh.

[Phil Yates]

I think that's an upgraded running back. Because I do think that Jalen Warren right now vacuum is more cool than Derrick Henry.

[Stefania Bell]

Yeah.

[Phil Yates]

And then I think the price you're. I know that we just talked about how Jefferson's been bad, but, like, over Cortland Sutton is, like, borderline usable.

[Daniel Dopp]

Agreed.

[Phil Yates]

And Addison has not been great himself. Jalen Naylor went off yesterday.

[Daniel Dopp]

I would like to. Don't get me started on that.

[Phil Yates]

I won't.

[Daniel Dopp]

I'm going to lose in Dynasty because I have Jalen Naylor on the bench.

[Stefania Bell]

That's a bad way.

[Phil Yates]

Which I told you to start him.

[Daniel Dopp]

I know you did. I played Romeo Dobbs. I trusted Mike on a Packers wide receiver. Again.

[Phil Yates]

Fly to turn. I keep seeing lunch right now.

[Daniel Dopp]

All right, thanks for watching, guys. Thank you so much for hanging out with us. Today's show was presented by Little Caesars. Have fun. Watch on Monday Night Football. We'll see you back here on Tuesday day for a waiver wire show later.

[Stefania Bell]

You're in the whole six.

[Daniel Dopp]

Oh, one.

[Stefania Bell]

Oh, God. Fantasy.

[Daniel Dopp]

Fantasy.

[Stefania Bell]

Focus.